Employers attitude to sickness

[thinfourth2]

I have recently pulled up at work for excessive sickdays (10 over 12 months) by the yard manager.

However a few days before this we were all told that due to safety issues if we aren't fit for work we shouldn't turn up.

So what should i do when i feel like crap. Should i go to work and throw up behind the workshops feel like trash for a week and get bugger all work done.

Or should i take a day or two off stay in bed and go back to work feeling okay and get some work done.

I should point out this is not office work it is outside in a big cold workshop so i can't really hide behind a computer screen.

[Agrilla]

One period of 10 days absence is always going to be considered differently to ten days taken individually.

Have you worked out your Bradford Score?

[FraserLFA]

I always go in. Try and keep my mind of the sickness, be productive and earn money. Generally, it depends on the trade. Working in an office i either sit at home all day if ill, or sit at work doing something productive. But like i said, depends on your area of business.

[thinfourth2]

So basically if human remains use a bradford factor then if i have a 2 day bug spend 2 days stting my brains out and 3 days fixing the landrover instead of taking 2 days off and getting back to work as quickly as possible

FraserLFA said:

I always go in. Try and keep my mind of the sickness, be productive and earn money. Generally, it depends on the trade. Working in an office i either sit at home all day if ill, or sit at work doing something productive. But like i said, depends on your area of business.

Outside in the pissing rain or in a big tin shed with bugger all heating taking big oily engines to bits and getting covered in grease and sludge as i'm a grease monkey. a little bit different from sat at a PC with a lemsip

[zollburgers]

Quinny said:

Learn how the Bradford factor works..... And use it to your advantage.... You'll be amazed how much time off you can have, and not even get a warning...



Most of the fellas at our place only worked 6 months out of the year...... And they've been there for 25 years

Hopefully if there are redundancies at your place you and your fellas will be first in line.

[TheCarpetCleaner]

From 1997 - present -

I had

1 week off with Flu think in 1999

2 weeks off post op double hernia op in 2005

1 week off with norovirus in 2007

1 working day off in 2009 after not sleeping for 3 days straight (changing medication for insomnia)

Otherwise, unless I am incredibly ill, or contagious, I work.


My own attitude is tthe same as when I first started working - you work unless you are physically unable to. Feeling a bit grotty is for the weak

On the other side of that, when I have legitimate days off, I expect to be left alone and the business mobile is turned off.

[Munter]

Personally I always try to get to work. However pretty much anybody I've worked for has encouraged the opposite.

Employer: You're fk all use at the best of times. Please stay at home so you don't infect us.

[Tallbut Buxomly]

My boss threatened to not pay me if i didnt stay home if i feel sick.

[massivemoto]

Quinny said:

There were redundancies 2 years ago.... All voluntary...

Most whom abuse the sick scheme chose to stay, as they're better off

I actually don't blame them..... I blame the management that let them get away with it....

By the way, I never had time off, except for 2003 when I had a major operation.... I was there for 25 years and took the deal as it was so generous

But hey, that's government agencies for you.... Great pension scheme too

Unfortunately, you are right. Bradford factor works very well if the employment contracts are properly written and not at all if they are not. Thankfully, in the private sector, companies are fast becoming aware that not doing this stuff is simply poor governance.